Claude Monet

By MARK ST. JOHN ERICKSON Daily Press The first time Norfolk artist Ray M. Hershberger devoted himself to the peculiar beauty of the swamp, he explored it so intently he thought he was finished. More than 20 years passed, in fact, before a drive through the South Carolina Low Country and the whiff of mud convinced him to stop and take a closer look at a boggy vista unfolding from the side of the unhurried road. And what he saw as he peered into the distance made him take out his camera. Shooting from his car window, Hershberger captured the first of what became hundreds of quick, relatively straightforward shots recording the ways...

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